The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Built-In Cure for War Erin Niemela’s recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive. Count me in. But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first. While banning war is just what the world ordered, it has about it something of the whole Bush-Cheney …
Connecticut Advances Conversion from War to Peace Economy The Connecticut legislature has sent to the governor to sign a bill that would create a commission to develop a plan for, among other things: “the diversification or conversion of defense-related industries with an emphasis on encouraging environmentally-sustainable and civilian product manufacturing. On or before December 1, …
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Veterans For Peace Calls for an End to NATO By Veterans For Peace Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been a war-making institution lacking in accountability …
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Member of Veterans for Peace Alters Afghanistan Discussion on CNN Scott Camil, a veteran of the second-longest U.S. war in history, that on Vietnam, radically changed a discussion of the longest war in U.S. history, that on Afghanistan, on CNN on Sunday. CNN’s Don Lemon tried repeatedly to explain troops posing with body parts as …
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Petition: Investigate Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize Dear Members of Stockholm’s County Administrative Board: The signers of this petition include an array of peace groups and peace activists based in the United States. The undersigned wish to endorse and support the investigation that Stockholm’s County Administrative Board has reportedly begun based on it supervisory …
The Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize Alfred Nobel’s will, written in 1895, left funding for a prize to be awarded to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” …
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Everybody’s Got Afghanistan Wrong I’ve just read an excellent new book by Anand Gopal called No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes. Gopal has spent years in Afghanistan, learned local languages, interviewed people in depth, researched their stories, and produced a true-crime book more gripping, as well …
